Quince and a caterpillar, Jacques Le Moyne

This beautiful watercolour painting of Quince and a caterpillar is one of a set of drawings from a nature album by French artist Jacques Le Moyne (1533 - 1588). Watercolour and bodycolour, 1585. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was a specialist draughtsman of flowers and natural history. He sailed to Florida with Laudonnière's expedition in 1564-65 as cartographer and artist; Le Moyne's drawings, some of the earliest images of European colonisation in the New World, were used by Theodor de Bry to illustrate the second part of his 'Great Voyages', 1591. As a Huguenot, Le Moyne had to flee France and settled in London (Blackfriars) as early as 1581 where he entered the service of Sir Walter Raleigh.

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